{"id":6831,"date":"2010-07-07T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2010-07-07T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T03:04:52","slug":"chris-pook-involved-in-new-jersey-f1-race-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chris-pook-involved-in-new-jersey-f1-race-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pook involved in New Jersey F1 race bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pook has confirmed he is involved with plans for a second formula one race in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Pook is a British businessman who championed the famous Long Beach street event for F1 before heading the Champ Car series.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported this week that, alongside Austin&#8217;s inaugural United States grand prix in 2012, Bernie Ecclestone is in talks for another race amid the New York skyline.<\/p>\n<p>A recent proposal for a site in Jersey City was ruled out, but reports suggest another location in New Jersey is on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Pook, also involved with F1&#8217;s Watkins Glen race in the 70s and subsequent events in Detroit, Las Vegas and Dallas, confirmed that he is working on a New Jersey F1 project.<\/p>\n<p>He said he could not give details, like the proposed site, because of a non-disclosure agreement.<\/p>\n<p>F1 chief executive Ecclestone told the Austin newspaper American-Statesman: &#8220;There are no agreements (for a second race).\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t finalised anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pook has confirmed he is involved with plans for a second formula one race in the United States. Pook is a British businessman who championed the famous Long Beach street event for F1 before heading the Champ Car series. It has been reported this week that, alongside Austin&#8217;s inaugural United States grand prix in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,1905,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}